Following Martin Parr’s sudden death late last year, Magnum Photos’ new gallery in Paris, located at 2 Impasse Delaunay, 75011, presents a solo exhibition dedicated to images created during his time with the organisation. Martin Parr: In Plain View runs from 28 March to 6 June 2026. The exhibition coincides with a smaller display presented earlier this year at an agnès b. shop in Marseille.

Parr (1952–2025) joined Magnum Photos in 1988 as an associate and remained a member of the cooperative for the next 30 years, serving as the agency’s president between 2013 and 2017. Recognised for his incisive eye and distinctive approach to capturing everyday life, Magnum co-president Lorenzo Meloni noted that Parr’s humour, clarity, and vision shaped discussions across the agency and the wider photographic world.

Accompanied by texts, archival material, and correspondence, the exhibition offers insight into the photographer’s life and practice.

Parr began his career working in black and white, then widely considered the defining medium of serious photography, documenting everyday life in rural English communities undergoing rapid change. By the early 1980s, he transitioned fully to colour photography while maintaining the empathy and sensitivity that characterised his earlier work. Although John Bulmer is often credited with pioneering colour documentary photography, Parr played a key role in expanding its broader significance. The exhibition traces these developments, from early works such as Mayor of Todmorden’s inaugural banquet (1977) to his saturated colour images of the 1990s, which focus on the overlooked details of contemporary life.

As the inaugural exhibition of the new Magnum Gallery and Bookshop in Paris, no longer located on Rue Léon Frot, In Plain View reflects both on the institution’s history and its future. Bringing together a wide selection of photographs alongside interactive elements, the exhibition offers insight into Parr’s contribution to Magnum and to photography more broadly, as well as the evolution of the medium across the 20th and 21st centuries.

Fellow Magnum photographer David Hurn remarked on Parr’s unique public recognition, noting that his name has become shorthand for a distinctive photographic style, an association rarely achieved by photographers.

This follows the exhibition Déjà View, first presented at Magnum Paris before travelling to London a few years ago. The show marked Magnum’s presence at Cromwell Place in South Kensington, and was curated by Lee Shulman.

Image: Martin Parr, London, England (1997) © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos.